How to show the menu as fully expanded

[sonnur]

I am creating a CMSimple theme that have a dropdown menu.

How do I show the menu as fully expanded with all menu levels open?

[Gert]

Hello,

which CMSimple you are using?

In CMSimple 4.1.3 and higher you can set in the template.htm:

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<?php echo toc(1,3,1);?>

The first 2 parameters are the minimal and the maximal menulevel.

The third parameter:

0 - dynamic Menu
1 - expanded menu

So the code example shows menulevel 1-3 in an expanded menu,

Gert

PS: An "automatic" open toc:

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<?php echo toc(1,$cf['menu']['levels'],1);?>

Menulevels as configured in the CMS Configuration.

[cmb]

How do I show the menu as fully expanded with all menu levels open?

Instead of

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<?php echo toc();?>

you can write

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<?php echo li($hc, 'menulevel');?>

(that should work in nearly all CMSimple versions).

Both this and Gert's solution have a small drawback, however. The currently selected page is not marked up as <a>, so you would have to use li:hover instead of a:hover, what does not work on IE 6 for instance.

However, you can use xtoc as a drop in replacement for toc().

In CMSimple 4.1.3 and higher you can set in the template.htm:

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<?php echo toc(1,3,1);?>

That goes terribly wrong with CMSimple_XH since 1.5.4--what a pity to enforce an incompatibility for having a feature that's "always" been there.

An "automatic" open toc:

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<?php echo toc(null, null, 1);?>

[sonnur]

Thanks for answers I did use:

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<?=li($hc,'sitemaplevel')?>

[cmb]

'sitemaplevel' is rather unconventional in this context, but it's okay if it works for you.

[cmb]

In CMSimple 4.1.3 and higher you can set in the template.htm:

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<?php echo toc(1,3,1);?>

That goes terribly wrong with CMSimple_XH since 1.5.4--what a pity to enforce an incompatibility for having a feature that's "always" been there.

I've seen that this has changed in CMSimple 4.2.3, where the third parameter of toc() was removed, and instead there's a new function expToc() that can be used as replacement for toc(). Thanks, Gert.

[Gert]

I've seen that this has changed in CMSimple 4.2.3, where the third parameter of toc() was removed, ...

No, it's not removed - expToc() is just added.

Calls like toc(2,3,1) are a nice tool to set different tocs anywhere in the template, menulevels as wanted, dynamically or expanded, as ever someone wants. I will not remove this option,

Gert

[cmb]

No, it's not removed - expToc() is just added.

Thanks for the clarification.

Calls like toc(2,3,1) are a nice tool to set different tocs anywhere in the template, menulevels as wanted, dynamically or expanded, as ever someone wants.

I see your point now. But then, being able to specify a user (or template designer) defined li() seems to also be a nice tool. However, as it is now, a template designer who wants his templates to work under CMSimple v4 as well as CMSimple_XH can't use either tool. So we may consider to find a common solution.